CCE Basic stops while encoding from VirtualDubMod

[Barnabas]

I am having trouble with CCE 2.70 basic stopping while encoding from VirtualDubMod. I am trying to convert a WMV file. The file plays fine, and there is no problem encoding it in TMPGEnc, but CCE basic gets stuck while encoding for some reason. The file is using directshow via avisynth btw. Using avisynth by itself has the same problem.

Using the latest version 2.70.01.10 btw.

Any ideas of what's wrong?

[manono]

Hi-

Wrong framerate set in CCE maybe? When I encode a 29.97fps file, but forget to change it from my 23.976fps default setting, it stops about 80% of the way through and just sits there.

[Barnabas]

Don't see any place to set the framerate. Seems to do it more on longer files.

[manono]

You don't have a framerate box like this?

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/cce270.htm

6th pic down. Admittedly I don't use the basic version of CCE, but it seems pretty basic to me that it would have one. Also, if I stupidly forget to set the correct framerate the second time, it stops in the same place. If you're getting these freezes at different random places, I'd suspect hardware problems, especially overheating. It was your statement, "Seems to do it more on longer files." that lead me to suspect possible overheating as the culprit. Do you have a way to monitor CPU temps, Motherboard Monitor, perhaps?

[mltwitz]

I've had similar problems with CCE when frameserving from virtualdub(mod). I found out, CCE does not "like" certain audio streams (e.g. ac3) and even if it encodes the audio, the result can be just terrible noise. I then read that audio encodingt in CCE is "buggy". So you may want to separate the audio stream (e.g. save as wav in virtualdub) and frameserve only the video stream to cce. You'll just have to mux audio and video back together at the end (tmpgenc imports mpv just fine).